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The Matrix
The series began with 1999's The Matrix. The film, directed by the
Wachowski brothers and produced by Joel Silver, was highly successful,
earning $460 million worldwide and beating Star Wars Episode I: The
Phantom Menace for the Academy Award for Visual Effects. In addition, by
2000, the DVD release of the film reached three million sales, the first
DVD release in the United States to do so.
The movie's mainstream success led to the
greenlighting of the next two films of the trilogy, The Matrix Reloaded
and The Matrix Revolutions. It took a number of years and several
iterations of scripts before the final films were approved. The two
sequels, which tell a continuous story rather than being stand-alone
episodes, were filmed simultaneously and released six months apart. The
trilogy is known as The Matrix Trilogy.
In acknowledgment of the strong influence of Japanese anime on the Matrix
series, The Animatrix was produced in 2003. This is a collection of
nine animated short films intended to further flesh out the concepts,
history, characters and setting of the series. The Animatrix project was
overseen by the Wachowski brothers, but they wrote only four of the
segments themselves and did not direct any of them. |
